You might find this article interesting regarding Australia's amphibious
capacity in 2011. It was the reason we obtained a vessel from the RN since
the two Spanish ships are still some way from completion.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3139605.htm
Antony
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] RAN
I've noticed that the RAN seems to scuttle a large portion of its decomms.
We've started doing some of that over here, but not at what appears to be
the same frequency. We do some of ours as dive reefs, but others explained
explicitly as fisheries reefs. I don't know how much meaningful overlap is
in those two categories, but would imagine that dive reefs must be much more
shallow. We dumped a lot of tanks and airplanes into the water to make fish
reefs as well. Which is not the most obvious idea of what to do with old
tanks and planes.
Back to ships, though, we sink far more of them in operational SinkExes to
get in weapons training. Too bad, because I would have liked to see some of
the old SpruCans in service someplace else.
> The oldest pair were decommissioned some years ago leaving 4 still
> commissioned but these will be progressively decommissioned. Our
> warships seem to be being turned into dive wrecks when disposed of an
> there is a lot of competition to get one. Don't know what the fate of
> the ex-Newports will be though.
>
> Antony
capacity in 2011. It was the reason we obtained a vessel from the RN since
the two Spanish ships are still some way from completion.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3139605.htm
Antony
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] RAN
I've noticed that the RAN seems to scuttle a large portion of its decomms.
We've started doing some of that over here, but not at what appears to be
the same frequency. We do some of ours as dive reefs, but others explained
explicitly as fisheries reefs. I don't know how much meaningful overlap is
in those two categories, but would imagine that dive reefs must be much more
shallow. We dumped a lot of tanks and airplanes into the water to make fish
reefs as well. Which is not the most obvious idea of what to do with old
tanks and planes.
Back to ships, though, we sink far more of them in operational SinkExes to
get in weapons training. Too bad, because I would have liked to see some of
the old SpruCans in service someplace else.
> The oldest pair were decommissioned some years ago leaving 4 still
> commissioned but these will be progressively decommissioned. Our
> warships seem to be being turned into dive wrecks when disposed of an
> there is a lot of competition to get one. Don't know what the fate of
> the ex-Newports will be though.
>
> Antony